Combined sash holder and starter



E. F. CHAFFEE COMBINED SASH HOLDER AND STARTER July 24; 192

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Patented July 24, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD F. CHAFFEE, F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO O. M. EDWARDS COMPANY, INC., OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION'OENEW YORK.

COMBINED SASH HOLDER AND STARTER.

Application filed April 14-, 1927. Serial No. 183,880.

This invention relates to combined sash holders and starters of the type shown in my Patent No. 1,667 ,283, issued April 24, 1928, and has for its object a particularly simple and eliicient means for positively restoring the sash starter member to its original position. I

In describing this invention reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters represent corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an elevation, partly broken away, of a'combined sash holder and starter embodying my invention, the contiguous part of the sash or window frame being shown.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation partly broken away showing the parts in their position as sumcd when the sash lock mechanism is operated to its full extent.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on line 33, Figure 2.

This combined sash holder and starter comprises generally a base, sash holding mechanism carried by the base andincluding a movable element, a vertically movable sash starter movably connected to said element to be moved vertically thereby, means tending to move said member laterally as said member approaches the end of its outward throw, and means for returning said member to its original vertical position, as it approaches the end of its upward throw. The sash holding mechanism may be of any suitable form, size and construction, and that here shown is the general type shown in my Patent No. 1,567,571, dated Dec. 29, 1925.

1 designates the base having a recess 2 therein opening through its rear face or face opposed to the sash 3. The base is secured to the sash in any suitable manner as by screws 4.

The sash holding mechanism comprises a movable latching element or bolt 5 slidably mounted in thebase and having a tooth or teeth 6 projecting out of the base to coact with the rack 7 on the window frame 8. The belt is reciprocally movable against a spring 9.

10 is the operating element, it being here shown as a lever pivoted on a stud 11 projecting into the recess and as having an an gular arm 12 interlocked at 13 with the bolt 5. The lever has a finger engaging portion 14: arranged outside thebase and arranged in juxtaposition to a with the base.

16 is the sash starting member, it being shown as connected to oneof the movable elements ofthe holding mechanism, and as movable laterally relatively thereto, it be ing here, shown as mounted at its upper end on a pivot 17 projecting from the lever 10. This starting member. extends through aslot 18 in the lower wallof the recess. In the construction of my pending application referred to, the starter member slidably fits the slotor opening therefor, and this openingserves to guide, the starting memberback into its normal position. In the present combined sash holder and starter, the starter member 16 moves laterally in the slot 18, and means is provided for returning the starting member to vertical position.

As here illustrated the starting member 16 is provided with a laterally extending arm 19 here shown as extending radially from its upper end, or radial with the pivot 17 and the base is formed with upper and lower spaced apart shoulders 20 and 21, located in the recess in the path of said arm 19. Normally the arm is engaged with the upper shoulder 20. During downward movement of the starting member 16, it moves vertically until the underside of the arm 19 engages the lower shoulder 21, which causes the member 16 to shift laterally on its pivot 17v in the slot 18 on its pivot. Dur ing the return or upward movement of the starting member 16, the upper side of said arm 19 engages the shoulder 20 as the member 16 approaches the end of its upward throw, and restores said member 18 to its normal or vertical position.

pinch handle 15 rigid An additional spring 22 is provided to act on the lever 10, and take up any looseness in the parts and thus avoid rattling. The starting member 16 coacts with a suit able abutment on the window frame here shown as a raised abutment 23 on the sill. It will be understood that there is usually one combined sash holder and starter at each lower corner. of the sash.

In operation assuming that the sash is closed, the starter member 16 is in a line with the abutment 23. To raise the sash the operating lever 10 is pinched toward the pinch handle 15, thus withdrawing the bolt 5, and thrusting the starter member 16 down against the abutment 23, so that it pries on the abutment, and thus breaks the sash away from the sill. After this operation is performed the lower side of the arm 19 engages the shoulder 21 and shifts said member 16' out of alignment with the abutment. Howstarter member is shifted on its pivot out of alignment with the abutment 23. Hence the sash-can be completely closed down on the sill, andvthe starter member 16 passes atone side of the abutment 23; However, when the operator releases the operating lever 10, the springs 9 and 22 restore the parts to their original position, and hence the starting member is moved upwardly and during the 4 end of ltsupward movement, the arm 19 engages the shoulder 20 and restores the starter member 16 to its vertical position where it is over the abutment 23 ready to pry the sash loose from the sill when the operating member is again actuated l/Vhat I claim is i I A combined sash holder and starter comprising a base, sash holding mechanism carried by the base including a movable element, a Vertically'movable sash starter pivotally connected to said element to be actuated thereby and to shift laterally relatively thereto, the said member being formed with an angular radially extending arm, and the base being formed by spaced apart shoulders arranged to engage said arm, one shoulder being arranged to engage one arm when the member approaches the end of its throw in onedire'ction, and the other being arranged to engage said arm when said member is at the limit of its throw in the other direction. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and in the State of New York, this-13th day of April, 1927.

EDWARD F. onAFFEn- 

